Process of weaving, transporting, and finishing cloth



Sept. 4, 1945. A. EDD'Y 2,384,288

PROCESS OF WEAVING, TRANSPORTING AND FINISHING CLOTH Original Filed June 10, 1943 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 INVENTOR. 149N040 [00) Sept 4, 1945. A. EDDY 2,384,288

PROCESS OF WEAVING, TRANSPORTING AND FINISHING CLOTH Original Filed June 10; 1945 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 INVENTOR. fl/P/VOLD faar Patented Sept. 4, 1945 UNITED STATES ATENT OFF-ICE PROCESS OF WEAVING, TRAN SPORTING, AND FINISHING CLOTH Arnold Eddy, Middletown, Conn, assignor of onehalf to Hilda W. Striker, New York, N. Y.

4 Claims. (Cl. 28-72) My present application is a divisional application of my U. S. patent application, Serial No. 490,253, for Processes of weaving, transporting and finishing'cloth, filed June 10, 1943 now Patent No. 2,357,730; dated September 5, 1944.

My present invention relates to processes of weaving, transporting and finishing cloth; my invention furthermore relates to looms, and more particularly to improvements in cloth beams of looms and attachments thereto.

It is an object of my present invention to facilitate transporting and finishing of woven cloth rolls.

It is a further object of my invention to enable finishing of cloth in the shape of a roll without the necessity of transporting the cloth roll from one finishing machine to the othe on the cloth beam of the loom.

It is still a further object of my present invention to enable production of ribbon-shaped fabric and finishing of the same in a particularly easy and simple way.

Another object of my present invention consists in new methods for producing gauze which methods are greatly labor saving compared with those used at present.

Finally, it is also an object of my present invention to provide a new cloth beam construction for a loom making removal of the cloth roll from the cloth beam and sliding of this cloth roll onto anothe beam possible.

With the above objects in view the structural part of my present invention comprises mainly the combination of a cloth beam of a loom with a cloth receiving tubular member arranged slidably upon this cloth beam.

Preferably means are provided for preventing turning and sliding of this tubular member relative to the cloth beam during weaving of the cloth.

This construction enables removal of the woven cloth roll from the cloth beam and introduction of another beam e. g. the cloth beam of a cloth treating machine into the tubular member upon which the cloth roll is wound up. Thus it is unnecessary to transport during the finishing process the cloth beam of the loom with the Woven cloth roll or as it is usually done to unwind the cloth from the cloth beam and to finish it in a very laborious and difi'icult way while it is piled up in layers lying upon each other. It is evident that all finishing steps, e. g. dyeing, bleaching and drying can be carried out much simpler and quicker if the cloth is woundupon a supporting member-and if it is not necessary to spend much GSSGS.

What has been said in the preceding paragraph is of particular importance in the process of finishing gauze. In this case unwinding of the gauze after weaving and finishing of the th'us unwound gauze is of particular disadvantage, as well known to everybody skilled in this art. It is extremely hard ot retain the original structure and shape 1. e. the width of the gauze during finishing e. g. dyeing, bleaching and drying so that the finishing treatment of gauze is one of the most complicated and laborious proc- It is evident that by the above described structural improvement of the loom on which the cloth e. g. gauze is woven all these disadvantages can be avoided in a simple and efficient way.

I wish to stress that the cloth receiving tubular member which is arranged in accordance with my present invention on the cloth beam may be made practically of any desired material. However, I would like to note that I prefe to make this cloth receiving'tubular member of a flexible material e. g. plastic, rubber or even fabric. In the last mentioned case I need only a fabric hose of a great length and have to out before each weaving a new cloth-roll a fabric hose portion of appropriate length from the long fabric hose and to slide it upon the cloth beam of the loom. Although it seem improbable, practical experience has proved that such a fabric hose very well serves its purpose, namely it enables removal from the cloth beam of the loom of the woven cloth roll and the fabric hose upon which it is wound up, and sliding of this cloth roll upon another cloth beam by introducing into the fabric hose in the center of the cloth roll another cloth beam, e. g. the beam of a cloth treating machine.

The novel features which I consider ascharacteristic for my invention are set forth in particular in the appended claims. The invention itself, however, both as to its construction and its method of operation, together with additional objects and advantages thereof, will be best understood from the following description of specific cloth beam of the loom, a tubular member, and

a cloth roll supported by the same, along line 22 of Fig, 1; r

Figure 3 is a longitudinal section through a cloth beam, a fabric hose, and a cloth roll, showing another embodiment of my invention;

Figure 4 is a cross section through the cloth beam, fabric hose and cloth roll shown in Fig. 3,

Having above described the objects and main characteristic feature of my present invention in detail, I will explain in the following only the actual embodiments shownvin the drawings. course, this should not mean that my present invention is limited to these embodiments.

In Fig. 1 I have shown a loom H of usual design; therefore I will not describeit indetail. Theonly feature in which this loom distinguishe from the conventional ones is that there is arranged on cloth beam [2 a cloth receiving tubular member 13 upon which-the woven cloth roll 14 iswoundup. 7

As shown in Fig. 2 cloth roll I2 is arranged in conventional manner between the two side walls l5 of th loom body, rotatably supported [by the same. The upper bearing member I6 is secured only by screw H or otherwise to the correspondinglower bearing member thereby making it possible to detachthis bearing member l1 and to remove cloth ibeam l2 together with tubular member [3 and cloth roll M. It should be mentioned that these means for securing and removing the cloth beam do not form part of my presentinvention as such means are provided in each and every loom of conventional design, I

The tubular member I 3 provided in accordance with my present invention and clearly shown in Figs. 1-4 is secured to cloth beam [2 in such a manner as to avoid movement of this tubular member relative to cloth beam, l2 during the weavingprocess. This can be obtained by most various means as for instance by screws I8 (Fig. 2) orpinsblQ (Fig.3), arranged at both ends of beamll. V H v,

mentioned above, the tubular member may be made of most different materials: Thus I have shown in Fig. 2 a tubular member 20 made .of rubber and in Figs. 3 and 4 a fabric hose 2| serve ing for these Pu poses. It is evident that this fabric hose need not to beshape-retaining but may be collapsible as also in latter case it enables introduction of a beam into this fabrichose after the same has been removed from cloth beam 12 or loom I I together with cloth roll I4 wound upon it. H

My present invention consists not only in structural improvements of a loom but also in the new processes themselves which are made possible by these structural changes. These my new finishing processes have as main characteristic feature the steps of winding up the woven cloth on the loom ll upon a tubular member [3 arranged on the cloth beam [2 of this loom, removing after weaving from this cloth beam l2 the woven cloth wound upon thetubular memberl3 in the shape of a cloth roll l4 together with the tubular member I 3, transporting this cloth roll it wound upon the tubular member l3 to a cloth treating machine 22 of the typeshown in Figs. 5 and 6, which machine is also provided with a beam 23', sliding the tubular member l3 with cloth roll l4 upon this beam 23, then treating the cloth in the cloth treating machine 22, and thereafter removing tubular member l3 together with cloth roll [4 Wound upon it from beam 23 of the cloth treating machine 22 and transporting both tubular member l3 and cloth roll l4 together, wherever required. It is evident that this process is made possible only by the improvements in the loom proposed by me. This process is new and forms also an important part of my present invention. 1 It should be mentioned that it is possible to remove during the treatment of the cloth in the cloth treating machine 22 the cloth temporarily from tubular member l3 arranged on beam 23 of this machine e. g. by winding the cloth temporarily upon drum 24 arranged in the machine 22 and rewinding the cloth from this drum upon the tubular member l3 arranged on beam 23. It is evident that in this case only one tubular member need to be provided as during the entire finishing processitheclothiroll I 4 is-pennanently wound upo'n thistubular member 13. it

It should, however, be mentioned that in ac cordance with my present invention I might provide inthe cloth treating machine e. 'g. in a machine of the type shown in Figs. 7 and 8 a sec-- ond beam 25 upon which I arrange an additional tubular member 26 as shown in Fig. '7. Inthis case cloth roll l4 together with the first tubular member I3 is arrangedin the same way asdescribed above on beam 23 but it is' unwound during treatment from this tubularJnember l3 and Wound upon the other tubular member. 26 arranged on beam 25. From this latter beam '25 the cloth roll [4 is then removed together with the additional tubular member 26 wound upon the same. Yr

For purposes of facilitating the understanding of the drawings I wish to mention that in Figs. 5 and 7 I have shown the cloth treating machines before start of treatment of thecloth, while in Figs. 6 and 8 I have shown these machines during operation. Furthermore, it should be noted that in these figures the numeralsZ'l, 28 and indicate driving meansforrotating the various beams 23 and 25 and the drum 24. It is evident that in the second machine shown'in Figs. 7 and 8 no driving means forbeam 23' are needed. Y

I wish, furthermore, to stress the important fact that the treatment steps described above may be repeated as often as necessar and combilled in any required way. That means that the cloth roll [4 wound-upon the tubular member l3 e. g. fabric hose 2| can be removed from themachine 22 shown in Figs. 5 and 6 and treated on other machines of similar typein the "same way as on this; machine 22. Thus, on'e of these machines might be a dyeing machine, 'anotherf 'a bleaching machine, still another a dryer. jItis only important that during the ,entire finishing process the cloth roll l3 be always i; e. during transporting from one of these machinesrtoan other and partly also during treatment in these machines themselves, on a tubular member, e; g. on a cloth hose 2| of the typedeseribed above The same is true for the treatment described in connection with the machine-shown in Figs. 7 and 8:.a1so this process ca'nbe repeated as often as necessary; it is only'important that in each of the machines the clothroll be unwound from a'tubular member Is and wound upon another tubular member 26 before leaving, the-ma-.. chineso that during transportation from"one,

machine to another the cloth "roll is always wound upon a tubular member. l

' Finaliy, I wish to mention that it is also within the scope of my presentinvention to combine treatments with both types of machines into one finishing process; Thus, I claim also as my invention processes in which the cloth is treated partly on machines of the type shown in Figs. and 6 and partly on machines of the type shown in Figs. 7 and 8. Naturally, also in these processes the cloth is always wound upon a tubular member when it is transported from one machine to the next.

I wish to mention that in case of tubular members made of relatively soft materials, e. g. card board, rubber or fabric, these tubular members may also be left in the cloth roll l4 when the same is cut into rolls of cloth ribbon as shown in Fig. 9. In this figure the cloth roll I4 together with the centrally arranged tubular member, e. g. fabric hose, not shown in the drawings, is placed on a series of supports and then cut by means of the schematically shown cutting device 3I into a series of ribbon rolls of the type shown in Fig. 10. This latter process step is of the greatest importance in the process of producing gauze ribbons which up to now were produced in an extremely difficult, laborious and complicated way. However, I wish explicitly to stress that also all other process steps and the entire new finishing processes described above are extremely well adapted for treating and finishing gauze and gauze-like material.

It should be mentioned that although I have mentioned above that in the cloth treating machines the cloth is unwound from the tubular member and wound back upon the same or upon another tubular member, in many finishing processes it is possible to finish the entire fabric without unwinding the same at all, i. e. while it is in the shape of a cloth roll wound upon a tubular member. Naturally in this case my present invention is of particular importance as its advantages are the greatest when no unwinding of the fabric during finishing is necessary.

Furthermore, I wish to note that it is also within the scope of my present invention to weave the cloth in the usual way done up to now, i. e. to wind it up on a cloth beam of usual construction without provision of a flexible tube or hose on this beam, and then to rewind the cloth from the cloth beam of the loom on a flexible tube or hose arranged on the cloth beam of a special rewinding apparatus or of a conventiona1 cloth treating machine used in the cloth finishing process. In this case, the cloth is then further treated during the finishing process on the flexible tube or hose upon which it is wound up from the cloth beam of the loom.

It should be noted that it also forms a part of my present invention to arrange a flexible hose or tube on any cloth beam of a cloth finishing machine and thus also the combination of a cloth beam of a cloth finishing machine with a flexible tube or hose arranged on this cloth beam lies within the scope of my present invention.

It will be understood that each of the elements described above, or two or more together, may also find a useful application in other types of cloth treating and finishing machines and in other cloth finishing processes differing from the types described above.

While I have illustrated and described the invention as embodied in processes for finishing cloth I do, not intend to be limited to the details shownsinoe various modifications and structural changes may be madewithout departing in anyway-from the spirit of my invention;

Without further analysis, the foregoing will so fully reveal the gistof my invention that others can by applying current knowledge readily adapt it for various applications without omitting features that, from the'standpoint of prior art, fairlyconstitute essential characteristics of the generic or specific aspects ofthis invention and, therefore, suchadaptations should and are intended to be comprehended within the meaning and range of equivalence of the following claims.

What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. In the process of finishing cloth, the steps of winding up a' wide cloth upon a flexible tubular member arranged on a cloth beam, removing after said Winding said wide cloth wound upon said flexible tubular member in the shape of a wide cloth roll together with said flexible tubular member from said cloth beam, transporting said wide cloth roll Wound upon said flexible tubular member to a cloth cutting machine, cutting said wide cloth roll together with said flexible tubular member upon which said Wide cloth roll is wound up into several relatively narrow cloth ribbons, thereafter removing from said cloth cutting machine each of said cloth ribbons wound upon the corresponding portion of said flexible tubular member in the shape of a narrow cloth roll, and transporting said narrow cloth rolls consisting of narrow cloth ribbons together with said corresponding portions of said flexible tubular member upon which said narrow cloth rolls are wound up, wherever required.

2. In the process of finishing gauze, the steps of winding a Wide gauze upon a tubular member arranged on a cloth beam, removing said wide gauze wound upon said tubular member in the shape of a wide gauze roll together with said tubular member from said cloth beam, transporting said wide gauze r011 wound upon said tubular member to a gauze cutting machine, cutting said wide gauze roll together with said tubular member upon which said wide gauze roll is wound up into several relatively narrow gauze ribbons, thereafter removing from said gauze cutting machine each of said gauze ribbons wound upon the corresponding portions of said tubular member in the shape of a narrow gauze roll, and transporting said narrow gauze rolls consisting of narrow gauze ribbons together with said corresponding portions of said tubular member upon which said narrow gauze rolls are wound up, wherever required.

3. In the process of finishing gauze, the steps of winding up a wide gauze upon a flexible fabric hose arranged on a cloth beam, removing thereafter said wide gauze wound upon said flexible fabric hose in the shape of a wide gauze roll together with said flexible fabric hose from said cloth beam, transporting said wide gauze roll wound upon said flexible fabric hose to a gauze cutting machine, cutting said wide gauze roll together with said flexible fabric hose upon which said Wide gauze roll is wound up into several relatively narrow gauze ribbons, thereafter removing from said gauze cutting machine each of said gauze ribbons wound upon the correspondingportion of said flexible fabric hose in the shape of a narrow gauze roll, and transporting said narrow gauze rolls consisting of narrow gauze ribbons together with said corresponding portions of said flexible fabric hose upon which said narrow gauze rolls are wound up, wherever required.

4. In the process of finishing cloth, the steps of winding up a wide cloth upon a tubular member arranged on a cloth beam, removing after said winding said wide cloth wound upon said tubular member in the shape of a wide cloth roll together with said tubular member from saidcloth beam, transporting said wide cloth roll wound upon said tubular member to a cloth cutting machine, cutting said wide cloth r011 together with said tubular member upon which said, wide cloth roll is wound, up into several relatively narrow cloth ribbons, thereafter removing from said cloth cutting machine each of said cloth ribbons wound upon the correspondingportion of said tubular member in the shape of a narrow cloth ro1l, and transporting said narrow cloth rolls consisting of narrow cloth ribbons together with said correspending portions of said tubular member upon which said narrow cloth rolls are wound up,

10 wherever required. 

